And for comparison, the fathers

Friday, June 14, 2013

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UPDATE for 2013:And 2,513 is the number of articles in PubMed with the word father in the title. A side note: searching for dad is less fruitful, bringing up things like the Disability Assessment for Dementia scale or liquid chromatography with Diode Array Detection. But I digress.

Though my own father didn't survive to see me graduate college, begin medical school (see An Incurable Disease), and choose pediatrics, and he was never able to celebrate father's day as a grandfather himself, even now so many years after his death I still think about him just about every day. And on Father's Day.

Let's celebrate and thank our dads, for who they are, were, and could have been.

About the Expert

Terry Kind, MD, MPH, is Director of Pediatric Medical Student Education at Children's National Health System. For the last decade she has also served as a primary care pediatrician at the Children's National Health Center at Martin Luther King, Jr., Avenue, in Washington, DC.